The media and pollsters haven't learned. It may just kill us all.

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4. The US has only two viable political parties.

One of these parties is no longer committed to democracy. The choice is no longer between (Nixon, Reagan, Bush, Romney) Republicans and (Johnson, Carter, Clinton, Obama) Democrats. The choice is between a party which is not committed to democracy and anyone else. Some Republicans are saying this, although with their usual projection they cast the Democrats in the role of subverting democracy. But it is only in the last few months that the media has started to allow the truth to be mentioned. And, of course, the Republicans have already poisoned the narrative by blaming the Democrats. I wonder by November what percentage of the US non-Republican electorate will realize that we are voting on whether to continue democracy in the US.